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Originally Posted by hasrv4fun  OH OH - now i have to disagree with part of what you said - now mind you its just part - I am totally against pet shops and puppy mills BUT
a large part of my buyers start with a picture via my website and then if they are approved as a possible parent , we move on to email pictures and on and on - And the pictures of puppies are taken the same day they are sent.
Not years or months before. I use a website due to where i am located in a very rural north Florida area.
Please don't generalize like that against anyone who has a website- I know that if you poll my many puppy owners they will have to tell you that when they were getting pictures of the baby every week or so and then got their real live baby , that it definitely was the same puppy - No they do not all look alike and each has definite differences.
To generalize against any breeder that has a website is no more fair than for me to say anyone that contacts me and doesn't want to make a long trip until the baby is ready to go to its new home , must be a scammer of some kind or perhaps i hear of one person that lives in a certain area and they mistreated a dog so i should never sell to someone that comes from that city or what ever . You have to be careful when you lump everone into a group because if i would discriminate against someone based on what someone else had done, then i would be most unfair.
There now i have had my say  |
I should have been clearer. Joey's breeder has a website as well, but she doesn't use it to sell puppies. A prospective buyer has to be interviewed. She uses the website to inform buyers about her breeding program and breeding dogs. Like you, she e-mailed me pictures of the actual puppies. All those websites have interview papers, but do you think most turn down anyone, especially with the Paypal payment right on the site. I do think there are good breeders out there that have websites, but how can anyone be sure unless they see in person where the puppies are being raised? This is inconvenient, to be sure, but we all most make small sacrifices in order to stop puppy mills. Everyone buying from the Internet "think" they are getting a breeder just like you, but they are not.